“Stop the violence. Stop harassment of women” – this slogan was accompanied by the participants of the happening, which was held today at the main market in Krakow. 50 men and women danced specially arranged dance routine to draw attention to the problem of violence against women. Throughout the world, activists are dancing to the same song. Krakow is the only city in Poland, where he used the song translated into Polish.
“One Billion Rising” this action is organized around the world. In Krakow, women danced for the fourth time.
Tarnow in action joined once 3. Action One Billion Rising took place in Tarnów market.
Action in Poland
in Warsaw, a joint dance in Passage Topping, attended by approx. 100 girls and women of all ages, dwudziestoparo- of the sześćdziesięcioparolatki; both able-bodied and disabled. The campaign supported the men who helped uczestniczkom provide a place of protest banners saying: “My body is sacred”, “No means no.”
In Poland, the campaign “One billion Rising” leads and co-ordinates from 2013 Feminoteka Foundation. The action is in this year’s fourth edition and is organized jointly with the Women’s Network created Antyprzemocową – organizations and groups from across the Polish.
As president of Feminoteka said Joanna Piotrowska, with police data show that each year in Poland rape reports approx. 2 thousand. women, but really the victim falls considerably more. “It is estimated that this is approx. 200k.” – Piotrowska said. – Most women who have experienced sexual violence, this does not answer – she noted.
– I’m talking about rape . In Poland there is no data when it comes to sexual harassment – noted Piotrowska and added that harassment is unfortunately common phenomenon.
Advocating for its various forms, which are reported Feminotece by girls and women, head of the foundation mentioned eg. a verbal comment on the body. – The words or rape – pointed Piotrowska, reporting on PAP stories about women commenting on their bodies by men “on the street or in public transport.” – It’s comments like: “You’re fat,” “You have such tits, and no other,” and disgusting proposals from sexually – telling.
– Women and girls say, unfortunately, that it is in Poland norm – the norm for them, that come with this type of taunts, verbal aggression and physical – admitted Piotrowska.
She pointed out the frequent sense of impunity, and the problem of lack of proper education concerning that do not exceed certain limits in contact with second person. – There is a widespread acceptance of the so-called. equine courtship. It happens from kindergarten. If the boy pulls the girl’s hair or a high school student slap friend in the ass and the girl goes then complain about the teacher, heard often in response: “Should you like it – I mean, that guy likes you” – said the head of Feminoteka.
warned that “this is giving consent to the behavior of exceeding the limits.” – The boys get the message that: it’s ok, this is cool, this is a show of sympathy. Meanwhile, the girls receive a message that their bodies, their boundaries, the needs are null and void; “You have to let the break, because it is a show you sympathy” – said Piotrowska.
She added that the consequences of this type of behavior and the lack of reaction from the adults tend to be tragic. – Then, years later, to us getting a woman grown – that fall within the compounds violent, because they themselves do not know where to set the boundaries and do not know when to say “stop”, since for years reaches them the message that ” they have allowed “. And if we enter a relationship przemocowy, there is no normal life, a normal love, partnership – Piotrowska said.
the action” One billion Rising “was supported in Poland known women, m.in .: Sylwia Chutnik, Anna Dereszowska, Dorota Wellman.
the village, which joined in this year’s campaign, in addition Warsaw m.in .: Bielsko-Biala, Bydgoszcz, Choszczno, Chybie, Czestochowa, Elk, Gliwice, Głogów, Gorzow Wielkopolski, Katowice, Konin, Koszalin, Gmina Kolsko, Krakow, Lublin, Lodz, Olsztyn, Opole, Plock, Poznan, Recz, Sosnowiec, Szczecin, Tarnów, Torun, Walbrzych, Wroclaw and Zielona Gora.
Piotrowska today underlined that it is very good that the action included not only women from big cities, but also women from smaller towns, “having the courage to protest.”
the action takes place on valentine’s Day, or the feast that reminds you what real love is. As said protest organizers, 80 percent. However, women experience sexual violence by people they know, eg. from partners.
According to Feminoteka, victims of sexual harassment fall mostly women and girls at home, school, work, on the street and on public transport. The research carried out in all countries of the European Union shows that the various forms of sexual harassment – from physical through verbal, the cybermolestowanie – experienced a 45 to 55 percent. females over the age of 15 years.
The research shows that the physical forms of sexual harassment, as unwanted touching, hugging, kissing experienced 29 percent. females over 15 years; Verbal forms of sexual harassment – jokes and comments with sexual undertones – 24 per cent .; and non-verbal forms of harassment (including cybermolestowania), as unwanted, offensive, sexually explicit e-mails or text messages – 11 percent.
describing the situation in Poland, Feminoteka reports that the majority of women who have experienced rape, do not report this fact to the police stations or in institutions, because “they are afraid to re trauma reinforced by wary officials and state officials who undermine the credibility victims. “
Action” One Billion Rising “(” One Billion Rising “) takes place around the the world, including in Poland – February 14 – since 2013. “The common denominator of action is to dance, because – dancing, I rule my body” – explains a form of protest organizers. They emphasize the fact that the common dance releases energy and that is a manifestation of strength.
“One Billion – billion for one “- is guiding the actions of protesters password, symbolizing the solidarity and support for girls and women experiencing violence. Originator of the campaign was an American feminist and activist antyprzemocowa Eve Ensler, author of “The Vagina Monologues.” After a wave of rapes in 2011 in the USA Ensler wrote: “I’m sick of talking about rape beautiful vocabulary. It took too long; we were too forgiving. Our turn to suddenly demand attention – in every school, in the park, on the radio, on television , home, office, factory, refugee camp, a military base, changing rooms, a nightclub, an alley, the courtroom, the United Nations “.
“People need to – once and for all – to realize how it is when your body ceases to be yours, when your world falls apart like a house of cards, and the psyche is torn to shreds. We join in a common rebellion (…) to change the way we think about rape “- appealed Ensler. She wrote about “a billion women.” “We live on a planet where during his life about a billion women fall or fell victim to rape” – warned Ensler.
(MWL)
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